[Bork]

(Original post by soczek322)
You get options? we get no options with edexcel...

Ahh I thought physics 5 was only AQA.
We didn't get to choose the option, but there are options.
Medical physics, turning points in physics, applied physics and astrophysics are the options I think.

What's Edexcel module 5 on?
Ours is Nuclear Physics, Thermal Physics and Astrophysics.

[jonnyboy1993]

(Original post by Farhan.Hanif93)
Seconded. I thought it might be interesting before I realised that it's almost completely prose-based... Should have gone for Applied Physics instead.

So glad my school went for the 'you're all good at maths, which topic is mostly maths?' approach and picked applied. You can get most of the marks just using the formula booklet

[Bork]

(Original post by Farhan.Hanif93)
Seconded. I thought it might be interesting before I realised that it's almost completely prose-based... Should have gone for Applied Physics instead.

We didn't even get a choice, it's quite straightforward though at least.
Just need to memorise all these damn ray diagrams over the weekend, and the spectral class bull****, along with some paragraphs on cosmology.
I expected it to be more interesting too, was looking forward to it all year then ended up getting slapped in the face by a ton of boring theory that you just have to memorise.

[soczek322]

(Original post by Bork)
Ahh I thought physics 5 was only AQA.
We didn't get to choose the option, but there are options.
Medical physics, turning points in physics, applied physics and astrophysics are the options I think.

What's Edexcel module 5 on?
Ours is Nuclear Physics, Thermal Physics and Astrophysics.

we have thermal physics astrophysics nuclear decay and oscillations so really the same thing except we have SHM

[Bork]

(Original post by soczek322)
we have thermal physics astrophysics nuclear decay and oscillations so really the same thing except we have SHM

Yeah that's pretty much the same except we have SHM in module 4 instead.

[Farhan.Hanif93]

(Original post by jonnyboy1993)
So glad my school went for the 'you're all good at maths, which topic is mostly maths?' approach and picked applied. You can get most of the marks just using the formula booklet

I'm pretty jealous tbh... Would much rather do something like unit 4 again, where you whip out your GCSE maths knowledge/the formula book and you're pretty much guaranteed 100%.

There are quite a few people in my physics class who don't even do Maths A-Level so we steered clear of that option. I couldn't be bothered with self teaching so I just went with whatever they did, which was astrophysics. (which did actually sound vaguely interesting... Until I realised that we get marks for drawing telescopes...)

[Bork]

(Original post by Farhan.Hanif93)
I'm pretty jealous tbh... Would much rather do something like unit 4 again, where you whip out your GCSE maths knowledge/the formula book and you're pretty much guaranteed 100%.

There are quite a few people in my physics class who don't even do Maths A-Level so we steered clear of that option. I couldn't be bothered with self teaching so I just went with whatever they did, which was astrophysics. (which did actually sound vaguely interesting... Until I realised that we get marks for drawing telescopes...)

Agreed that module 4 was the best.
Damn ray diagrams....

[Farhan.Hanif93]

(Original post by Bork)
Agreed that module 4 was the best.
Damn ray diagrams....

This current module just feels like a test of who's got the best memory/who's willing to spend the most time memorising stuff.

Anyways, I think we're taking the discussion away from STEP now so maybe we should make a thread for this stuff at some point rather than hijacking this one.

[jonnyboy1993]

(Original post by Farhan.Hanif93)
I'm pretty jealous tbh... Would much rather do something like unit 4 again, where you whip out your GCSE maths knowledge/the formula book and you're pretty much guaranteed 100%.

There are quite a few people in my physics class who don't even do Maths A-Level so we steered clear of that option. I couldn't be bothered with self teaching so I just went with whatever they did, which was astrophysics. (which did actually sound vaguely interesting... Until I realised that we get marks for drawing telescopes...)

I've just got to make sure I learn it all this weekend... But I couldn't agree more, unit 4 was just great, lovely simple maths, none of these stupid wordy questions...

Our school pretty much tell you not to take physics unless you are taking maths as well. They did astrophysics last year, but realised that applied was a better option for most of us so they changed for our year, thankfully

[jameswhughes]

I seem to have forgotten everything in unit 5, learning out of the mark schemes tonight

[soczek322]

How many of you are doing AEA? The AEA thread seems pretty dead... unless I'm looking at the wrong one

[Guy92]

I'm doing AEA, which I'm damn glad about after step 1 today!

[Bork]

I'm doing AEA as well.
I guess there's not much to say about it until after the exam though.

[safmaster]

When can we discuss STEP 1? 9am or midday?

[ben-smith]

(Original post by safmaster)
When can we discuss STEP 1?

9:30

[DFranklin]

(Original post by ben-smith)
9:30

It's 24 hours from the end of the exam, which makes it noon, I'm afraid.

[ben-smith]

(Original post by DFranklin)
It's 24 hours from the end of the exam, which makes it noon, I'm afraid.

my mistake, but a few pages back (post 2974) you said:
"no dicussion until 9am tomorrow"
granted I am still wrong but were you talking about a different exam?
Sorry for any confusion I may have caused.

[DFranklin]

(Original post by ben-smith)
my mistake, but a few pages back (post 2794) you said:
"no dicussion until 9am tomorrow"

Not sure what post you mean -
post 2794 is by someone else.

(Edit, found the post since I saw your edit about the post number).

granted I am still wrong but were you talking about a different exam?
Sorry for any confusion I may have caused.

I just got it wrong myself, sorry.

[ben-smith]

(Original post by DFranklin)
Not sure what post you mean -
post 2794 is by someone else.

(Edit, found the post since I saw your edit about the post number).

I just got it wrong myself, sorry.

lol, the fact that I seem to be unable to read numbers myself does not bode well for STEP!

[hello dave]

Ok well I'll start..

Thought it was a realllllly nasty paper, seems like lots of people did. Needed a 1, probably got around 40-50 marks, but that could be too high.

Answered question 4 completely ish, 5 10 & 11 maybe about 60-75% and small bits of 1,2 & 3. I'm just praying I got a 2 in STEP II which I thought was much easier then that STEP I. But saying that.. my view of the paper tends to get gradually more rose-tinted the longer after the exam it is.

Was the paper worse then all the recent years? or was it just pressure that got to me? I can normally find 6 questions I like the look of, but that was barely 3.